Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change in Pakistan

Showing 71-80 of 84 results

Pages

  • Document

    Proposals for upcoming activities under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change

    UNFCCC National Adaptation Programme of Action, 2011
    This document published by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) outlines proposals for upcoming activities under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change from countries including Colombia, El Salvador and Pakistan. It is part of the provisional agenda for Durban, 28th November to 3rd December 2011.
  • Document

    What Makes People Adopt Improved Cookstoves? Empirical Evidence from Rural Northwest Pakistan

    Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2011
    Drawing on field work surveys in rural northwest Pakistan, this paper provides empirical evidence of individual, household, and community level variables that play a vital role in the adoption of improved cookstoves.
  • Document

    Building climate resilience in South Asia

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
    This publication outlines several projects run by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) to improve resilience to climate change in South Asia, concentrating on 'Pakistan's post-flood reconstruction'.
  • Document

    Water and energy dynamics in the Greater Himalayan region: opportunities for environmental peacebuilding

    Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2011
    The water crisis in the Greater Himalayas constitutes an enormous challenge for the region and a growing, if still under-reported, concern in the West. Elements of the crisis include floods and droughts, unpredictable changes in the timing of water flows, hydropower rivalries and persistently unsafe drinking water.
  • Document

    UN-REDD lessons learned: Asia-Pacific

    United Nations Development Programme, 2012
    The UN-REDD Programme is the United Nations collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) in developing countries. This booklet delves into the experiences, challenges and best practices of REDD+ readiness in 12 Asia-Pacific countries including Cambodia, Indonesia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands and Vietnam.
  • Document

    Pakreport: Crowdsourcing for Multipurpose and Multicategory Climate related Disaster Reporting

    Centre for Development Informatics, 2011
    This case study focuses on Pakreport, an ICT initiative between crisis mapping organisations, engineers, relief agencies and crowdsourcing companies that began in July 2010 as a response to the floods.
  • Document

    Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia

    Development Research Network, 2010
    This brief focuses on how disaster risk management approaches are taking longer term climate change perspectives. The intention is to highlight, through a series of case studies and research summaries, some best practice/management practices implemented in South Asia and offer recommendations for both practitioners and policy makers.
  • Document

    Adaptive social protection: mapping the evidence and policy context in the agriculture sector in South Asia

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
    The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in programmes and projects.  While these approaches have much in common, because they have developed separatel
  • Document

    Climate adaptation in Asia: knowledge gaps and research issues in South Asia

    Institute For Social And Environmental Transition, 2008
    The report presents South Asia-wide review of climate change adaptation research, intended to identify present knowledge, gaps on adaptation and application including the practice of research. The study explores how groups in the vulnerable areas of the region are likely to experience stresses from impacts of climate change.
  • Document

    From risk to resilience: Understanding the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction under changing climatic conditions

    Institute For Social And Environmental Transition, 2008
    This paper evaluates the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change through an analysis of case studies in India, Nepal and Pakistan. The paper focuses on water related disasters and the manner in which they may change as a consequence of climate change.

Pages